edublogging

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edublogging

• an introduction to weblogs and weblogging tools
  in education
• Josie Fraser
• Wyggeston Queen Elizabeth I College

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weblogs

• Web/browser based
• Content is organised according to date
• Easy to use, automated tools
• Accessible to non-geeks
• Flexible personal, political, commercial and of
  courseeducational
• Situated practice multiple readers/writers

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new and automated tools

• Archiving
• Permalinks
• Comments
• Trackbacks
• Feeds
• Pinging

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student faculty blogs

• Setting and responding to tasks using blogs to
  fulfil assessment criteria and cover the
  curriculum
• Discussion, reflection, community building
• eLiteracy finding a (blog?) voice

open access
closed access
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Musselburgh Grammar
Musselburgh Grammar School was the first school
in the UK to use blogs to get pupils talking to
each other. They use traditional web pages to
present 'read-only' information and subject help
to pupils from teachers, and weblogs to create
interactional, cooperative projects with the
community and other schools abroad. Geoblog.
Paris 2005 Krakow 2004 Paris 2004 Musselburgh-USA
Pupil Council Online Head Teachers Letters Anne
Davis Edublog Insights
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Warwick University
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researcher and edtech blogs

• International communities of practice
• Shared and collaborative research, writing and
  thinking
• Resources and practices
• Knowledge work and management
• Staff and organisational development

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feeds aggregators

• RSS or Atom XML headlines, content and now
  adverts
• They come to you desktop, webpage, aggregator
• You can make/customise your own
• RSS Quick Start Guide for Educators (.pdf) Will
  Richardson, www.weblogg-ed.com Version 1.5
  Updated 29/03/05

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blogs feeds ? ?!
Future VLE - The Visual Version Scott Wilson
January 25, 2005
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Josie Fraser ILT Development Officer Wyggeston
Queen Elizabeth I College, Leicester,
UK jfr_at_wqeic.ac.uk